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- Educational Coordinator for the United States
Founder and President of Showbiz Visas, Kathi Kleiner, based on her foundation of in-depth knowledge and experience, has been providing high quality specialized immigration services to members of the entertainment industry for over 25 years. She was the Immigration Director of one of the world’s largest full service talent agencies, International Creative Management, Inc. and its subsidiary, ICM Artists, Ltd. In 2001, she formed her own company and continues to serve the entertainment industry today.
Ms. Kleiner’s clients range from small entertainment management and production companies to some of the most esteemed concert halls, foundations, festivals and music organizations in the United States, Europe and the Far East including Opus 3 Artists (an independent artist management firm and international leader in the field of artist management), Carnegie Hall Corporation, Works & Process, Inc, The Silk Road Project, The Princeton Entertainment Organization, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Moog Music, Moon and Stars Project, Russian Arts Foundation, and the Nippon Music Foundation.
The artists that toured the United States through Showbiz Visas are comprised of prestigious and world renowned individual artists and groups including Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Maestro Yuri Temirkanov, Ian Bostridge, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, The Chieftains, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo de la Vida, the Russian National Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Vienna Boys Choir, Les Arts Florissants, Bolshoi Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Hamburg Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba and the National Theatre of Greece.
In addition, Ms. Kleiner provides services as a writer and editor in the performing arts field. There is nothing that she enjoys more than being able to present her clients as unique professionals, stressing their artistic and creative skills and abilities, so that their publicity materials, bios and press releases will assist them in achieving their career goals.